so we have left some kids unrouted as a result at home. not on the street corners, but at all. >> and more than 4,000 special education students, they are transported to and from their classes every day. and in many cases, they are traveling to private schools as far away as baltimore and stafford county, virginia. >>> sky nine captures a scene of a town home fire earlier today. one person in the hospital. that house went up around 7 this morning. right now fire officials are on the scene at victoria square searching for what caused the fire. >>> expect some delays next week on interstate 95 in virginia and watch out for overnight road work crews. they will begin a project to add another lane to the highway between woodbridge and springfield. most of the work will happen between the rush hours and the very early morning hours. >>> still to come when 9news now returns, what to do when you can't afford to buy something and you want to rent it instead. we'll tell you more in living smart. >>> plus, the race to trace a killer. see how crews ar

. >> we left some kids unrouted as a result on home, not out on street corners, but at home. >> reporter the transportation director, david gilmore, points to a glitch in the new computer system. saying routes were changed and some students names and addresses were erroneously kicked out by the new system. >>> while riding his motorcycle bike, this man is now suing the county, his family is, that is. it happened in maryland in july of 2008. relatives of the 48-year-old, jones, said that the department of transportation was negligent for not cutting down the 19 foot teem limb that fell and -- foot tree limb that fell and hit him in the head. stkphr-t county has -- the county has a responsibility to safeguard and make sure that they are safe when they are driving along the county roads. and they didn't do that in this case. >> reporter: according to the police report, jones was not wearing a helmet. john cannon, who is riding his bicycle on the same stretch of road, says that probably it wouldn't have saved his life anyway. >> that's like, well, dropping a lead weight of several hundred po

. >> we have left some kid unrouted as a result at home, not on street corners, but at home. >> special education transport education director plans to a glitch in a new computer system. routes were changed and some students names and addresses were kicked out by the new system. >> we talked to a d.c. foster parent saying they have three special education students who are dependent upon the buses. one of them blind. none were picked up today. >> and we bought what we think is a much better system than the one that we had. but we never thought we should have implemented that as late in the last school year as we did. >> officials hope to have the problem fixed later today. it's a massive and very expensive proposition to get the city's special education students to class and back. the buses travel a total 42,000 miles, every day. and that's because the students are attending classes as far away as baltimore to the the north. and that is the counties for the south. >> no ma'am, they are still working on it though. that should be about it. >> hopefully they will see some tomorrow. that wil